English Synonyms and Antonyms

 susceptibility? How does it compare with sensitiveness? 4. How are susceptibility and sensitiveness
discriminated in physics?
EXAMPLES.
The ---- of the external surface of the body is a special endowment adapted to the elements around and
calculated to protect the interior parts from injury.
---- to pleasure is of necessity also ---- to pain.
Every mind is in a peculiar state of ---- to certain impressions.
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SEVERE (page 329).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is severe? rigid? strict? 2. How does rigorous compare with rigid? 3. What does austere signify?
What element is always found in an austere character?
EXAMPLES.
In mathematics we arrive at certitude by ---- demonstration.
He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as ----.
---- law is often ---- injustice.
By ---- adherence to truth in official dealing with the natives, the English have come to be always believed in
India.
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SHELTER, v. (page 331).
QUESTIONS.
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1. When is anything said to be covered? 2. How does shelter compare with cover? 3. What does defend
signify? 4. What does guard imply? 5. How does protect surpass guard and defend? 6. What does shield
signify? How does it compare with guard or defend? 7. In what sense is the verb harbor commonly used?
EXAMPLES.
He that ----eth his sins shall not prosper, but he that forsaketh them shall find mercy.
Thou who trod'st the billowy sea, ---- us in our jeopardy!
In youth it ----ed me, And I'll protect it now.
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SIN (page 332).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is sin? 2. How is transgression discriminated from sin in the general sense? 3. What is crime? guilt?
depravity?
EXAMPLES.
Commit The oldest ----s the newest kind of ways.
---- is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.
How ---- once harbored in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.
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SKETCH (page 334).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a sketch? How does it compare with outline? 2. In what special connection are draft and plan used?
3. How does a mechanical drawing differ from a draft? 4. What is a design? How does it exceed the meaning
of drawing? 5. What is an outline in written composition? How does a sketch in this sense compare with an
outline? 6. What is an outline of a sermon technically called? 7. What is a lawyer's brief? How does it
compare with an outline or sketch?
EXAMPLES.
A ---- that is without vigor, and in which the anatomy has not been defined, is a bad foundation for a good
picture.
A little model the master wrought, Which should be to the larger ---- What the child is to the man.
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SKILFUL (page 335).
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QUESTIONS.
1. What does skilful signify? 2. How does dexterous compare with skilful? 3. How does a skilled compare with
a skilful workman?
EXAMPLES.
So ---- seamen ken the land from far, Which shows like mists to the dull passenger.
Thousands of ---- workmen are thrown into enforced idleness by the strikes and lockouts of every year.
Much that has been received as the work of disembodied spirits has been but the ---- sleight of hand of spirits
embodied.
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SLANDER (page 336).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to slander? to defame? to libel? 2. When is defame equivalent to slander? When is it equivalent
to libel? 3. What is it to asperse? to malign? to traduce? to disparage? 4. How do slander and libel differ in
legal signification from the other words? 5. Which words of the group apply to open attack in one's presence,
and which to attack in his absence?
EXAMPLES.
----ed to death by villains That dare as well answer a man, indeed, As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
If the Scriptures seem to ---- knowledge, it is the knowledge that despises virtue.
Challenging each recreant doubter Who ----ed her spotless name.
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SLANG (page 336).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is a colloquialism? 2. What is slang in the primary and ordinary sense? in special senses? 3. What is a